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On April 7, 2010, the United States Sentencing Commission unanimously voted to modify the Federal Sentencing Guidelines' standards for an effective corporate compliance and ethics program.

On July 30, 2009, Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) introduced Senate Bill 1551, "Liability for Aiding and Abetting Securities Violations Act of 2009."

In a recent decision, Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s (JPMorgan) disclosure of information to FINRA in response to a routine chronology/name recognition inquiry constituted a waiver of privilege in a subsequent criminal insider trading case.

On 3 July 2016 the EU Market Abuse Regulations ("MAR")1 will come into force, replacing the previous civil market abuse regime as set out in the Market Abuse Directive ("MAD").

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that Philip A. Falcone, a New York-based hedge fund advisor, and the hedge fund he managed, Harbinger Capital Partners LLC (Harbinger Capital), have agreed to settle allegations of misappropriation of client assets, market manipulation and client betrayal.

The U.S. Department of Justice's National Fraud Enforcement Division has issued a new directive establishing a more centralized and aggressive approach to corporate fraud prosecutions. The directive outlines specific enforcement priorities, including healthcare fraud, government contract fraud, and tariff evasion, while introducing concrete markers that will guide investigation severity and resolution terms.

In National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) v. Executive Office for United States Attorneys, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia refused to require the Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide the NACDL a copy of its discovery manual, called the "Blue Book."

On October 17, 2011, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") published a proposed rule that would add "tangible prepaid access devices" to the list of monetary instruments that must be reported when they are "transported, mailed, or shipped into or out of the United States."

On March 22, 2011, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in the matter of Matrixx Initiatives, Inc., et al. v. Siracusano, et al., No. 09-1156.

Crimes such as data breach, theft of intel¬lectual property such as trade secrets, and the sale of counterfeit goods have reached epic proportion.

On September 29, 2022, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") issued the highly anticipated final rule, Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirements (the "Final Rule")...

On February 22, 2023, the United States Attorneys' Offices (USAO) issued a new Voluntary Self-Disclosure (VSD) Policy, which is effective immediately.

The Situation<: On October 8, 2019, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced two significant developments relating to the enforcement of white-collar crime:

The New Normal for the Food Industry - Compliance Programs and Employees Who (Seriously) Enforce them.

Corporate crime and investigations in 2026 continue to be shaped by national security and geopolitics, producing overlapping...

In Announcement 2012-42, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that due diligence deadlines under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) are being extended in light of voluminous comments received in response to proposed regulations issued in February 2012.

On April 30, 2019, Brian A. Benczkowski, the assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice ...